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Not my usual style, but this time I did it. Yay. Goober question...single GPU/card use, do I need the multiple-GPU function/choice? Or can I check the "disable it"? What I'm not understanding is that EVGA's Precision thingie, only GPU2 gets "hot" to any degree when gameplaying, like it's largely/only using that one/is only one, yet it shows settings for 2. That normal? Does it only use GPU1 if you're actually drawing upon the "amazing real time physics effects?" I don't understand? I'm no expert (and haven't looked at nVidia settings for many years), but I would guess that the disable multi-gpu thing is for compatibility reasons if you have games/apps that really don't like the SLI/Crossfire thing (which is what you essentially have now). It is normal for one GPU to get warmer than the other (mine always do). Presumably because you really only need to invoke the second if you put more work on it than a single GPU can handle. I will have to wait until Amazon gets mine in stock and shipped. I haz green demon bag full of envy

Decisiveness

Isn't that why MMO's are popular, pitting player versus player? It sounds like you are suggesting a multiplayer crpg with the AI controlling the other players

I was too busy looking inside. Thanks.

Still playing FO:NV... I was wondering about Yes Man. I met him briefly after Benny got away from me and we had a chat. In my quest list I now have several Wildcard options for the main quest, one of them is talking to Yes Man about the families, but where did he go after that initial encounter? He sure doesn't seem to be on 13th floor anymore Did I miss a note from him where he was headed, or will I automatically run across him again during the normal course of the main plot?

To honest, I'm not sure. My experience with "Fantasy" games before PS:T was either polytheistic/pantheon type settings (most of the stuff in the old TSR settings) or a complete absence of religious observances, save possibly the odd "blessed" item with no elaboration of who or what had blessed it. Maybe the odd temple of some nameless deity to be robbed too, but you were more likely to get killed by traps and guardians than a lightning bolt from the sky. BY contrast PS:T was all about belief, one of the major themes of the setting (belief shapes reality). In DA:O the Chantry and their monotonous droning on and on about evil mages and mankinds sins and the just as repetitive endless whinging from mages about being oppressed by the Chantry and "we waz robbed!" was for me a major detractor from the game. It was simply too close to real world religions and persecutions, right down to mans disobedience and expulsion from the supreme beings presence. Sometimes a substitution for "magic", Sometimes as a source of moral values. You follow a nice god, you are supposed to do nice things, you follow an evil god, you are supposed to do evil things. Easier to justify letting the player do moustache twirling, evil cackle kind of things if you do it in the name of faith.

Only until the Chinese growth flatlines and the resource sector crashes and burns. It's the only thing generating anything worth writing about and the rest of Australia, from retail to whathaveyou is struggling to make ends meet. Australia may have made itself "independent" of trade with UK/Europe and the US to some degree, but they are now completely depending on Chinese sustained economic growth, which the Aussie economy is piggy-backing upon.

I don't remember Planescape Torment having a single monotlithic church either

I'm a sucker for Christopher Lee. Always thought he would have made a good "Fizban" in a Dragonlance dramatization.

I still have my vote no to Maastricht campaign t-shirt from 1992. It has one Danish and five EU flags and the text 'Find five errors'

Sadly, my recommendations for dealing with corporate fat cats is not work safe and would land me in trouble. A shame really, as it is very graphical, almost a piece of impressionistic art As long as the personal risk for the decision makers is negligible compared to potential personal gains, you are going to fight an uphill battle for stability.

Not sure what any of them had to do with the Baldurs Gate franchise to be honest. The only really interesting bit in DA:O was the game mechanics which showed potential as a foundation to build and expand upon. It made a bland setting with mind numbingly boring factions a fairly entertaining game. Of course, the one thing they chucked out of DA2 was the game mechanics... At the moment my expectation is a 20 hour QTE where you can press the right gamepad button (is there even going to be a PC version?) at the right time to pass the "difficult" parts of the game and successfully romance everybody from your dog to your mother.

Which of course raises the age old (yet to be solved unequivocally?) question, what is an RPG?

Somebody's gonna get tele-fragged!

Anecdotal evidence (i.e. my own experiences), so far none. If you have some really antiquated, obscure (and unsupported) hardware, you might have trouble finding drivers, but anything released by most popular brands is updated a long time ago by now. Haven't found a game or application yet that hated W7 x64 more than it hated my hardware. Very old stuff can run on Dosbox or VirtualPC anyway.

Bless you... *offers paper tissue*

I would still like to know more about project New Jersey some day

Too much grind involved in oranges. Endless peeling. Apples are more accessible.

From various things around, it sounds more like Cerberus are infected to a degree with reaper tech , much in the way that husks are. Or at least some of the higher echelon are, but I don't think they've given specifics of whats what just yet. Enoch and Malcador beat you guys to it My 'why not' guess explanation: TIM has always been on the side of the Reapers. But the Reapers aren't monolithic. The Reaper handling the Collectors was part of a splinter group, going off the reservation with their "human reaper" experiments. TIM, allied with the main horde, was working towards the same goal via a different path-- making Shep into badass zombie cyborg. That he could test this badass zombie cyborg by using it to capture/destroy the work of a rival Reaper faction was a nice bonus. There is, as I see it, a certain similarity between both the Collectors' and Cerberus' pre-ME2 activities (sampling different weird galactic species and experimenting on them, etc.). Ah yes, makes sense. It's the faction that wants to build bigger and bigger reapers versus the faction that wants to build small, flexible Sheperd sized reapers. He is the 'prototype' without knowing it, getting pitted against the evolutionary dinosaurs of Reaperdom. There can be only one

@WDeranged: Is that a mod? I like the little "model" robots on the shelf

Well, the advantage (as far as I see it) is that I don't void the warranty. My old card started misbehaving about a month after I had replaced the cooler (and voided the warranty). It only just became really pronounced when I started playing FO:NV, because it was the first time in a very long time that I played something that didn't run on VirtualPC, Dosbox or otherwise didn't require much from a card. I've had very bad luck with my last two ATI cards, one lasting almost 2 years and one lasting less than 2 months before starting to act up. My old Leadtek Geforce 5900 Ultra is still running on its 7'th or 8'th year. I'm just trying to see if I would have more luck with nVidia again.

Let's just say time is for me a more valuable currency Which is why I sometimes don't have the patience for stuff that doesn't work.

That would make for a cool party trick

That's what happened in the book? Yup. Turned out that I needed to distract some trolls (that I had ignored at first and bypassed) and wait for the sun to rise, turning them to stone or some such (also a good hint from reading the book). After that, their cave was mine for looting, including the sword, which enables you to survive for considerably longer than without a light source in goblin filled caves. One of the traits of "Sting" is, that it glows when orcs and goblins are near. I think it even did that when Frodo had it in the LoTR movies.

*Whimper* Caved in an ordered this one 10 minutes ago. Even if it says 'usuall ships in 1 to 2 months'. I'll just have to suffer in silences. [silence]*suffering*[/silence] Not saying anything... Cruel world... Wouldn't make much of a differnce I suppose, as each an every Aussie online store has ETA unknown for all 590 and most (except from some brands I'm not familiar with) of the 580 cards. @Spider: I'm not sure I can squeeze two 580's in on top of each other. Heck, even the 5970 required some tearing out of things that normally is part of the casing